X-Search mines the web for millions of experts

Millions of experts exist in the world; most of them leave tracks on the web through scientific literature, patents, research center corporate websites, blogs, forums etc. X-Search, PRESANS Expert Search Engine technology allows automatically building network of Expert (expertise mapping).

The “crawling module” constantly crawls tens of millions of these scientific sources to collect relevant information.

Collected information is then analyzed (indexed and structured): the engine automatically builds a real-time network of experts. Experts are described by a number of fields including contact details, institution, collaborations, and field of expertise.

The “visible part” of the search engine is a search bar. A query corresponding to the scientific need is launched through the search bar. The engine returns a list of potential qualified experts. A ranking function ranks most relevant experts first.

Technological innovations

Dr Vassilis Plachouras and his team at PRESANS have made a series of technological innovations to provide the following advantages to X-Search:

X-Search is the first free worldwide expert search engine

X-Search is launched by PRESANS on the 18th of January and the best thing is that anybody can ask for a free activation code. Registration to access X-Search Freemium is completely free and will always be! Drop us a line at x-search [at] presans [dot] com if you’d like to join the private beta.